Editor's Note: If this was a ratings ploy, it's working. This article is making lots of headlines. I don't even feel the need to say who won this "debate," as it's pretty obvious and seems to be unanimous online (check out the hashtag #Pot2Blame?). You might also enjoy Seth Rogan's response to the show, as cited on High Times.Â
Rapper 2 Chainz joined television host/justice enthusiast Nancy Grace to discussthe pros and cons of legal marijuana on HLN Tuesday night, and the result was great television.
Using the hashtag #Pot2Blame?, Grace tackled marijuana policy at length with a panel of guests that also included addiction specialist Brad Lamm and National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Chair Norman Kent. But most of the 50-minute segment was devoted to 2 Chainz (real name Tauheed Epps), whom Grace questioned on everything from his parenting to his lyrics while a stream of marijuana b-roll and 2 Chainz music videos played silently in the background. (Grace's perfect icebreaker? "While I have you–why the two chains?")
The two mostly argued over a series of criminal cases raised by Grace as emblematic of a future in which pot is widely legal.
